{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016-commencement-no-7-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016-commencement-no-7-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1241",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration Act 2016 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016-commencement-no-7-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "The treatment of existing recognizances and bail bonds",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where, before 15th January 2018, a person—\n(a) entered into a recognizance either on his own behalf or as a surety for another, or\n(b) in Scotland, entered into a bail bond on his own behalf or as cautioner for another,\nin respect of a grant of bail under Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act, and is thereby liable, after 15th January 2018, to forfeit a sum of money in accordance with the terms of the recognizance or bail bond if a condition of that bail is breached.\n(2) The recognizance or bail bond is to be treated for the purposes of Schedule 10 to the 2016 Act as if it were a “financial condition” as defined by paragraph 5(1) of that Schedule and as if it were imposed under paragraph 2 of that Schedule, notwithstanding the fact that it may not comply with the provisions of paragraph 5(3) of that Schedule.\n(3) A grant of bail which is subject to such a recognizance or bail bond may not be the subject of a direction by the First-tier Tribunal under paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 10.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. substituted (11.1.2018) by The Immigration Act 2016 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/31), reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2 in force at made date"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1241/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:04:55.405321+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}